THE LEAD BELT NEWS

THE LEAD BELT NEWS, FLAT RIVER, ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923

LEADWOOD NEWS

J. R. Boyer has been quite ill for several days.

B. A. Rea was a St. Louis visitor Tuesday.

Dr. Yeargen of Ironton was in town Monday.

Mrs. Jake Goodman went to St. Louis Tuesday. 

A. C. McMullin and family were in Bonne Terre Monday night.

Quite a number of our citizens are on the sick list with cold and lagrippe.

DeSoto basket ball team will play with Leadwood Athletic Club Wednesday night.

J. Ward, Justice of the Peace of Irondale, attended court in Leadwood Monday.

Dr. Gale of Bismarck made a professional call in Leadwood Sunday and Monday.

Paul Frayo left Sunday for St. Louis where he expects to secure employment.

Ellis Seaburn had the misfortune of getting three fingers cut off of his left hand while at work last Wednesday.

Leadwood is listening in on the air to the extent of eight or nine radios.  Several others are getting ready to listen in.

The Mothers and Patron?s Club have placed twenty swings in the play ground of the grade school.  The little folks are enjoying them very much.

The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Birks died in Detroit Thursday, January 11.  The parents brought the body here for burial.  The funeral was held from the home of W. P. Birks Sunday afternoon.  Rev. Reid, pastor of the Methodist church conducted the funeral service.

Miss Mary McGraw spent Sunday and Monday visiting friends in Doe Run.

BISMARCK NEWS

Mrs. John Heck and son, Leo, were guests of Bismarck friends during the first of the week.

Mrs. Hubert White returned to her home in Collinsville, Illinois after an extended visit with the L. N. Beard family.

Dr. Monroe of Bonne Terre was a professional visitor here Saturday.

Fred Strickland of Desloge is acting as clerk in the Kroger Store during the absence of Fenton Venable, who is sick with the flu.

Mr. H. Gannon of Mount Vernon, Illinois visited Bismarck relatives during the week.

OLD SOLDIER LEAVES OLD MONEY

E. R. Abernathy last week was named by the probate court as the administrator of the estate of Wash Underwood who died recently at the home of his sister east of town.  His estate consisted principally of money to the extent of upwards of $8,000.

He had kept the money in his room and the dates on some of the bills indicate that they were ones which he had been paid at the close of the Civil War.  A great many of the bills were so old and rotten that they had to be sent in to the treasury Department for redemption.  About $350 was in gold, the remainder being paper money.---- Democrat News.

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ELVINS NEWS

Mrs. F. K. Silsby is having imiprovements made on some of her property here.  She has had porches built to a couple of houses and has had a new roof on one of them.  Jas. Short is in charge of the work.

Chas. Goggin who has been employed at Twelve Federal for the past few months, left Saturday to go to St. Louis where he will reside in future.  His mother is conducting a rooming house in St. Louis.

Mr. and Mrs. Alex Horn went to St. Louis today to take their little daughter, Kathleen, to Barnes Hospital.  For about a year, the child has been a sufferer with cancer of the eye.  She has spent two or three months of the past year in Barnes Hospital.

T. L. Ross, who recently came here from Fredericktown and purchased the local hotel property in the Miller building, drove to Fredericktown Friday afternoon for his three children: Misses Pauline and Jewell and Master Elmo.  The young folks all entered the Elvins school Monday morning.

The series of meeting which is in progress at the local Methodist Church is nearing the end of the second week, with the pastor, Rev. J. Arthur Brown, doing the preaching.  A great deal of interest has been shown, almost from the beginning.  Presiding Elder O. H. Duggins, of Farmington, preached at 11 o?clock Sunday morning.

T. P. Schremp has sold his residential property to Chas. Berryman.  mr. and Mrs. Schremp, who have made their home here for a number of years, are leaving Elvins.  They will spend a couple of weeks visiting relatives and friends at different points.  They are undecided as to whether they will settle in St. Louis or go to some point in the West.

The mid-term eighth grade commencement exercise will be held in the local high school auditorium, Monday evening of next week, January 22.  The exercises were to have been held Thursday evening of this week but was postponed because of a conflicting date with the grade basket ball game which was played in Desloge on this evening to decide the county grade championship.  Elvins is perhaps the only school in the county to put on a mid-season commencement.  This has been done the past few years.  On this occasion, 13 young people are completing grammar school.  They began high school work Monday of this week, which marks the beginning of the last half of the school.  A literary program of addresses and music will be given on the occasion of this commencement.  The members of this graduating class are Allene Ross, Frances Sutton, Sallie DeGrant, Earl Norris, Burl Newcomer, Josie Moore, Alice Sherrill, Oscar Alexander, Pearl LaRose, Odus McClary, Willie Huls, Emmett Ketcherside, and Nellie Duball.

Mrs. S. C. Aubuchon, who had spent more than a week in St. Louis at the bedside of her grandmother, Mrs. Elvina O?Leary, returned home last week, reporting Mrs. O?Leary on the road to recovery.

Mrs. S. C. Aubuchon, who had spent more than a week in St. Louis at the bedside of her grandmother, Mrs. Elvina O?Leary, returned home last week, reporting Mrs. O?Leary on the road to recovery.

Mrs. Raymond Tlapek who spent all of last week in St. Louis, a guest of Mrs. Ed Wacker, returned home Friday.  Mr. Tlapek went with his wife, but returned in a couple of days.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Karsch and three children: Ione, Edward, and Homer of Leadwood, spent Sunday here guests of Rev. and Mrs. E. D. Owen.

Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Farrar and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Layne of Elvins Route One, Tuesday.

F. P. Kenner, a pioneer citizen of Elvins, is critically ill at his home here.  Mr. Kenner has been ailing for several months.

Mr. and Mrs. John Govero and small daughter, Rosemary of Bonne Terre, spent Sunday here with relatives.

Misses Camile and Ethel Belknap of Bonne Terre spent Sunday here guests of Zeta and Zeo Govero.

Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Gunn of West Elvins have been seriously ill, but are improving.

Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dearing spent Thursday in Hillsboro.

Mrs. Wm. Watts is spending the week in Bonne Terre with her daughter.

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